The ICEIRD series of conferences pioneered the concept of regional development. Starting ten years ago with the core aim of introducing the concept of regional development in South East Europe, ICEIRD managed on a yearly basis to integrate key global trends of regional development and trigger co-creations among the actors and institutions involved.
From its beginnings influencing policy making for prosperous economic and social development, ICEIRD developed over the past ten years to address key challenges such as: knowledge and technology diffusion, the role of innovation and how to capitalize on it, the role of institutional change and support to foster proper co-creations, inclusive policy making at the regional level, regional growth within the triple bottom line aspect (economic, social, environmental) and entrepreneurialism across all institutions within a region.
ICEIRD covered areas from across Europe spanning from the United Kingdom to Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, FYROM, Greece, Cyprus and Turkey.
The 10th Edition of ICEIRD focuses on core challenges in regional development as well as on emerging challenges, including:
· Researching: Innovative and entrepreneurial teaching and learning
· The evolving role of universities in innovation systems
· Creating entrepreneurial societies: The triple helix and beyond (ecosystem evolution)
· Coproducing: University-Industry technology transfer and knowledge exchange
· Coproducing: Anchor-institutions and regional economic development
· Coproducing: Fostering Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
· Value co-creation and services to clients in the digital economy
· Co-creation and new disruptive innovation models
· Societal challenges and reverse engineering of solutions
· Co-creation and citizen driven innovation society
· Co-development, living labs and smart cities
· Commercializing: Startups and Spinouts: challenges and best practices
· Commercializing: Early stage investment & (venture) funding
· Commercializing: Investing in Innovation: financing growth
· Commercializing: Startups and Spinouts: challenges and best practices
· Commercializing: Early stage investment & (venture) funding
· Commercializing: Investing in Innovation: financing growth
· Innovation and digital solutions for sustainable development
· Frugal innovation and the paradoxes of growth
· University-industry links in the era of smart specialisation / smart growth
· University-industry and the digital transformation of innovation ecosystems
· University-industry links at the co-design paradigm
We are pleased to be supported by PraxisUnico as a key partner of the event, which runs from 31 Aug - 1 Sept 2017.